At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she rose from curator of American art to deputy director.” “After hiding in plain sight on ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Archaeologists studying ancient wells have discovered that some weren’t finished in a single effort. Communities might dig to the current water table, use the well for years ...

David Hockney, “the English artist whose deftly designed and suavely colored paintings turned trans-Atlantic attention to figurative and narrative art beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s after ...

“An auction featuring dozens of works by the late Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick saw his major pieces sell for far more than their estimated value—including some pieces that went for three or four ...

Intuit Art Museum marks the 250th anniversary of American craft with “Cutting and Pasting a World: The Paper Craft of Henry Darger,” a new exhibition exploring the connection between the work of ...

“A tenured art therapy professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago was suspended from teaching and placed under investigation following a student’s complaint about an assigned case study ...

“Three Lincoln Park properties tied to Chicago’s artistic and academic history received official landmark protection after the full City Council approved their designations,” reports Block Club. “The ...

“The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit reopened its doors for the first time in more than a year on April 25, showing off upgrades to its 22,000-sq.-ft Midtown space—just in time for the museum’s ...

The Chicago-based Richard H. Driehaus Foundation has announced that Lori Dimun, current president and CEO of the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, will join the Foundation as senior program director ...

Intuit Art Museum will debut “Monumental: Sculpture by Dr. Charles Smith,” an exhibition “examining the sculptures of self-taught artist Dr. Charles Smith through the lens of ‘anti-monumentalism,'” ...

Nathaniel Mary Quinn, the acclaimed Chicago-born artist whose first canvases were the walls of his family’s apartment in the Robert Taylor Homes, will host his first solo museum exhibition in the city ...

Art Basel Awards Include Theaster Gates, Barbara Kruger, Hilton Als Thirty-three recipients will be celebrated at Art Basel in Switzerland this June, records Artnet. It’s the “second edition of its ...